Day in Pictures, Sept. 30, 2014

By By Mike Moffitt

on September 30, 2014 11:47 AM

An artist paints the body of a model at the International Tattoo and Body-art Festival in Minsk.

The star-spangled backside:

An artist paints the body of a model at the International Tattoo and Body-art Festival in Minsk.

Photo: Sergei Gapon, AFP/Getty Images

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Hotel hostage taking:

An unidentified gunman holds an employee hostage at the Saint Peter hotel in Brasilia. The gunman reportedly turned himself in after forcing the worker to put on a vest laden with what appeared to be explosives.

Designer Karl Lagerfeld and Gisele Bündchen (in stripes) lead models in a fake protest demanding, among other things, male pregnancy and the wearing of tweed at Chanel's Spring/Summer 2015 ready-to-wear fashion collection in Paris. They were not pepper-sprayed — unfortunately.

A lion cage is lifted on to a truck at the Al-Bisan Zoo in Gaza prior to relocation of the cat and two other lions to a wildlife sanctuary in Jordan. The zoo was badly damaged in the recent Israel-Hamas war in Beit Lahiya, with more than 80 animals killed.

A puppy peeks outfrom underneath a car in the front yard of a Las Vegas home where 45 small dogs were killed in an overnight fire. Another 48 canines survived the blaze. The total of 93 dogs is more than 15 times the number allowed in one house by the city. One of the three bedrooms in the 1,200-square-foot home was described as piled with animal waste.

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A zoo for microbes:

A Pilobolus, a type of fungus that adheres its spores to vegetation and is eaten by grazing animals, is one of the many fascinating microbes visitors can observe at Micropia, the world's first "micro-zoo," in Amsterdam. Pilobolus passes through the animal and lives in its feces.

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Is this the line for the iPhone 6?

Meerkats queue up at a pumpkin bearing goodies (fruit and flour worms) at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany.

Is this the line for the iPhone 6?

Meerkats queue up at a pumpkin bearing goodies (fruit and flour worms) at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany.

Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch, AFP/Getty Images

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Do-it-yourself'er:

Pierced by power tools, a worshipper of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine marches in street procession during the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Devotees commit painful acts during the festival to purify themselves and take on the sins of the community.

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Still clogging at 85:

Dick Taylor, 85, dances to bluegrass music at the Historic Orchard in Spruce Pines, N.C. Taylor says that when he was a child, his family would have a dance every Saturday night at his home in Spruce Pines and that he started dancing at age 3.

For $15, you could get your picture taken with a pair of live cheetahs loaned to Kansas' Topeka Zoo from Wildlife Safari in Winston, Ore. The cats, Khayam and Mchumba, were kept on leashes for obvious reasons during the photo sessions with the public.